Garuda Linux - My New Daily Driver | Gnome 43

[@mkrleza]

Hvala!

[@eBuzzCentral]

My friend you are way to nice. Thank you for the continued support.

[@whiskeylinux]

I like Garuda a lot, although my daily driver is still Linux Mint MATE. Great review man, subbed. :)

[@starra0787]

good as always, awesome review!

[@namelessuser666]

I stayed in Garuda since I tried it. Love it.

[@johnstath9666]

You speak highly of Garuda. I’ve never tried it. You make a compelling case though. As always, enjoy your videos

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thanks for watching!

[@Plyply99]

Garuda Gnome (after switching to Wayland), is an excellent distro. I usually swap between Fedora and Garuda, but I find Garuda to be just that bit better. And I've noticed for some games it runs better than Fedora.

[@jean-pierrea5803]

Unlike the dragonized KDE, this one worked out of the box with no issues.

[@mekuranda]

Thank you for the reviews you do and put new ideas into my head. I do often try the new (to me) distros on a VM to see if they are more suited to my hardware and software, most fail some fundamental features that should work but don't do well and so I often spend an hour or more trying to get these things working, then scrub the VM and return to Fedora (and RisiOS) - some of the first things that cancel an OS for me - poor or non existent support for 4K monitors, multi monitor setups, poor or non existent support for AppImages, Sound (bluetooth) issues, Printer support and or flaky operation just to name a few. It appears to me that you spend a lot of the video reviews on what software is included, rather than daily use functions - for example I have tried distros that you suggested that would not update, with errors in software or repositories, Like a few others have suggested, a greater focus on real world operation would be more useful - as we can install software easily, but can"t fix errors in the OS itself. I am downloading The Gnome version of Garuda, in the hope that it works as reliably as Fedora - the others I have tried all failed my tests - and I believe Garuda's problem is trying to make too many versions and not focusing on just one good implementation. Curious experience - there is no English selection on the download links - so have to assume that not selecting one of the many in the dropdown box defaults to English....how could simple basic UI be forgotten?

[@TMoneyJones]

Making the switch to Arch from Ubuntu and this video was the deciding factor. Love the content!

[@eBuzzCentral]

Great to hear!

[@eBuzzCentral]

Great to hear!

[@peterschmidt9942]

You make a good point about Windows 11 (or even Windows 10 for that matter). If you have an 8GB laptop (which most come in these days), you're using at least half of the RAM just to run the operating system - crazy! And if you can't upgrade the RAM (as is the case with a lot of business laptops), you're screwed if you want to run even a browser with lots of windows (tabs) opened. Being that I use Linux mainly for working at home and while I'm away (not for gaming), I find Garuda Dragoinized too garish. But after watching one of your older videos on how you customised it to look more normal, I'd definitely give it a whirl. While I'm generally not a fan of the Gnome DE, I really like the easy access menu's they have included now. This seems like a great fit for a laptop with a touch screen. I may end up giving this a go on that one.

[@PeanutJaxs]

i distro hopped for 2 weeks until i settled with Garuda, i just surf the web and play steam games.....best distro 4 me👍👌the only distro ever that detected all my gaming hardware.

[@brads2041]

For reasons, I was looking for a new distro to try. Looked through your videos and picked Garuda Gnome. I'm very impressed with the setup process compared to Fedora, or most other distros I've tried. The setup tools actually remove some terminal work without a bunch of mousing around to do it. Will see how it goes

[@eBuzzCentral]

Great to hear!

[@sidgillespie5879]

Are you still on Garuda?

[@davidwayne9982]

I DID try the gnome 43 and liked it-- (thanks to YOUR video) and was waiting to put it on vanilla Debian.. but I like this..

[@offertunatea]

Since I had some problems after updating pretty often, I'm hesitating to go back to Arch (or -based) distros. I'm currently using Fedora 36 Gnome and looking forward to a release of 37.

[@erics7004]

I'm using OpenSuse instead of Fedora because pipewire and wayland don't work with my hardware. Tumbleweed is rolling release and works flawlessly.

[@Grimy-ks7vn]

I’d say Garuda is the second best distro after BigLinux. And I’m saying that as someone who moved from Garuda to BigLinux

[@aappiah1]

Thanks

[@SimonVassallo]

I went from Garuda Gnome to Ubuntu 22.10 and it is so much faster for me.

[@papagoth5621]

Yeah Garuda is a heavy distro if you go with full fat features

[@sharktooh76]

@@papagoth5621 not completely true. Garuda KDE is heavy just because it uses latte dock. Remove that and replace it with the standard panel and you will get a super light KDE distro that needs about 700MB of RAM. Ubuntu is not even close as being faster than Garuda...

[@SimonVassallo]

@@sharktooh76 I was not bashing Garuda but for ME Ubuntu is faster :)

[@goldendune9600]

one thing to say my friend: endeavouros

[@chris122380]

I have had issues with KDE. Specifically touchpads and LCD display scaling. I've had neither of those issues in Gnome (I do have to change the touchpad settings). I am really going to have to give this distro a try. I like the Arch concept but it's over my head in many cases and I have had the Manjaro SSL key issues. I'm going to try it first in a VM before I install it on my system. The biggest problem I've had with Arch is picking up my printer where other distros have. So I'm going to test it out first and then install it if I like it.

[@davidwayne9982]

DANG-- this sounds like they have REALLY got that one prepared for anything-- checking stuff before updating and all that--- looks like they really NAILED a perfect setup....

[@kirangeorge8]

How is Wayland support? Any bugs?

[@double_courage57]

Garuda's Sway edition is great - IMO the best out-of-box experience for someone who wants to play with WMs. I look forward to other Wayland-based WMs like NEWM from Garuda! Would be great if you can make a video of Wayland-based WMs!

[@josephdegarmo]

Garuda GNOME looks nice, but the XFCE version is the most stable flavor especially when it comes with the Linux LTS kernel by default.

[@davidwayne9982]

QUESTION-- would you NEED tiling extension on that-- and if so- would the POP TILING extension work- since it's gnome??? I love my tiling (the POP way- NOT the keyboard banging bs)..

[@artedwards717]

I like the new daily driver BETTER

[@wiz3905]

👍 2 things . You noticed a CPU core running bet 65-70% what's that software you running that showed you that? 2nd thing, I've never played computer games except JourneyMan & Mario Brothers, can you show none gamers howto to set up a Narrative World Type Game on Garuda gnome. I'd prefer none killing war & shoot em up kind of games., Maybe demonstrating how you create such a content video. Like a video within a video🤣

[@wyattarich]

Rather than using a GUI, it's HIGHLY recommended to update via garuda-update

[@JS-wl3gi]

Only thing I am really changing is to have vertical instead of horizonal, other than that Gnome just takes up 1% of my screen and I work with the rest.

[@FOSSuser]

I was thinking about going to a distro from windows 11 but only holding on for windows games that don't work well on proton and to help other less tech savvy friends. My tolerance might be at its end any day though

[@JohnPublic1981]

Thanks for the great video. I need some assistance if anyone can help. I installed garuda gnome on my machine but it seems that it came with gnome 42.5 instead of 43. Is there a reason why the 43 is not offered from their site?

[@fmlazar]

Garuda's philosophy is "Unused memory is wasted memory" it has never been for people who insist on their OS being sparse and lean.

[@eBuzzCentral]

I disagree with that, out of all the Linux distributions I have used, Garuda utilizes my memory better than any of them.

[@fmlazar]

@@eBuzzCentral My comment mainly refers to the Garuda KDE Dr460nized which is loaded with visual bells and whistles. Powe options that take up more resources made with the assumption that you've got beefy hardware and resources.

[@drudotdwg]

@@fmlazar I've just started using Garuda as well, I went Dragonized with my laptop over 5 years old with Intel Pentium and Intel Graphics 505HD, That's also to consider that it only has 4GB RAM and surprisingly it works really smooth for me, didn't encounter any problems and even in idle it has a great battery saving.

[@zaebaniyunderground6260]

Garuda is lightweight, man.

[@wiz3905]

Difference between lean & efficient and power consumer without equal returns or output. But I just installed it the Gnome Shell that is called a desktop comes w/ warnings regarding making it more functional is likely to break the system🤣 Hopefully you are familiar w/ the scripts that control gnome functionality. Now I'm going to see how accessible the editing of gnome scripts specific to Garuda are🤣 So reviews without instruction is what's selling on KZbin now?

[@davidwayne9982]

I liked the look of Garuda At FIRST- now I don't-- I think it's too gaudy -- BUT-- you have that looking GOOD.. and you also got me to liking GNOME after hating it for years.... so , even though I still haven't learned much of ARCH stuff (keyboard crap that I hate) and the like- and kinda don't want to fix issues all the time--- I take your word for TRUTH- and believe you run this with NO ISSUES.. and I may give it a shot.. I'll put it on my VENTOY and if I have issues with my Sparky or feel like a change-- then I'll install this..

[@agamersdiary1622]

So how was it :D

[@davidwayne9982]

@@agamersdiary1622 I think it's GREAT software- FAST , and all that one needs-- but I don't know enough about Arch to want it- and my Debian MX and SPaRKY do everything I need forME.. (not knocking anything for anyone else-- :) BUT it IS great.. I just don't need it..

[@richardmonroe4208]

Well you got me to try BigLinux and I did - and ditched Garuda - God I wish you'd make up your mind. LOL

[@dits791]

Same here, i ditched Mint for BigLinux, i can say I'm very happy with it but there's a lot of Distro hopping going on here.

[@eBuzzCentral]

I know I cover a lot of distros, but I want everyone to know what is out there. If you like BigLinux stay with it, I change distros monthly so I can deliver you guys up to date info on the distros I use.

[@dits791]

@@eBuzzCentral It's OK, if it wasn't for watching your videos, i would never have found BigLinux. I do like your videos and honest opinions on the Distros you try.

[@mlTS7626]

He's just making contents This doesnot mean we should follow him

[@agaskew]

What happened to Gecko?

[@essetee]

The new trend is a dark theme. As soon when you change a light theme for a dark one, it is very difficult for me to read text in the dark theme. For video's on youtube, the light themes are better for reading.

[@BotraxDiaz]

Mention the Chaotic-AUR which is binary builds of AUR

[@AnotherDred]

I tried Garuda dragonized and only some steam games were working. Can you show how games works on those distros you review and not only desktop customisation? I don't care how my desktop looks, I want to see the performance, I'm stuffed with you reviewing desktop customisation options and apps. Do some testing, show us, I will greatly appreciate it. Edit: an example - try to run Rdr2 steam on Garuda live. Seriously, I like what you do but I want to see how distris run meat, that's what we are here for

[@fmlazar]

Did you make sure that those Steam Games were Linux and not Windows?

[@minasora6697]

did you also use proton?

[@_dev_null_]

Honestly the best channel on KZbin discussing ditros. Always shedding light on new toys to play with 🙂

[@Amos_Huclkeberry]

Daily driver of the week. I wonder what it's going to be next week?

[@eBuzzCentral]

You obviously didn't watch the video, and you don't know very much about my channel. I daily drive a new distro every month, to bring news and information about that distro to the viewers.

[@Amos_Huclkeberry]

@@eBuzzCentral I was just joking around. I thought there was another one last week. Maybe I'm just confused, sorry. Haha

[@Amos_Huclkeberry]

@@eBuzzCentral I haven't seen a lot of your videos, but I like them so far.

[@eBuzzCentral]

Yeah my last one was October 4th which was gecko Linux.

[@nostalgia232]

is it possible to install the mega cloud software on that system

[@eBuzzCentral]

Yes

[@nostalgia232]

@@eBuzzCentral can you do a video on how to install it because i never had any luck installing it on a arch based linux distro

[@ambarrlite]

Tip: For Gnome users try Extension-Manager , has lots of features.

[@sharktooh76]

Don't... Or it will brake badly at the first gnome version upgrade...

[@kirangeorge8]

Is silhouette media player ?

[@AaronGravesthegravesmeister]

Microsoft Edge on Linux? Heresy! 😂

[@eBuzzCentral]

I need it for some of the work I do with my business clients.

[@AaronGravesthegravesmeister]

@@eBuzzCentral That's cool I just saw that and had to make a joke about it. I'm currently watching your latest Garuda video and really want to switch but I just love the simplicity and stability of Fedora. Maybe I'll dual boot it and use it for a while before just replacing fedora to make sure I'll like it for the long hall.

[@Sanjay_Kundu]

I used Garuda (dragonized) for 3 months total waste of memory and time. It's theming was good but not best. And now using Endeavour OS so better and close to Arch rather a candy roll with make but not anything else. Still good for beginners. Edit : resources eater not much difference between Garuda and windows in term of resources usage. Almost 3gb on ideal on 8 gb setup Also lot of things like wifite, SQL also not working. Wanna Arch base go with Endeavour OS. Btw your videos are nice 👍👍

[@double_courage57]

Second this. Been distro hopping for a year now and Endeavour is the way to go for intermediate to advanced users.

[@Jeff_Seely]

I may have to give the gnome version a solid try. I appreciate your openness to criticism. I come from old school Southern hospitality 101 and the golden rule is, " If you ain't got any thing nice to say then don't say it at all". I find that works very well for me.😁

[@davidwayne9982]

You mentioned a newer kernel-- how about it picking up printing and other older equpment??? Debian does it well automaticlally- does this?? I will miss the stability of Debian- but YOU say this is good and have used it with NO issues--- and I TRUST You..

[@nayeemislam7836]

My only problem with garuda linux is that it sometime stuks on the boot menu

[@agaskew]

I'm running Garuda LXQt in a virtual machine and its really slow. kwin_x11 is using 35-40% CPU all by itself.

[@_dev_null_]

Garuda runs very slow on VM's. They suggest that you don't install on a VM on the website for that and other reasons, but on physical hardware it runs great.

[@agaskew]

@@_dev_null_ weird but thank you

[@xperience-evolution]

Load average is more important than Ram

[@sidgillespie5879]

Are you still using Garuda as your daily driver?

[@theplaymakerno1]

Due to your video on Manjaro, I switched to EndeavorOS. Now I want to move to Garuda due to this video, even though I do not need it. The only thing that concerns me is the BTRFS thing. I have heard that it kills harddrives

[@highnessblazeit2757]

Since when; btrfs is lit, wdym bruh

[@limpa756]

I mean anything kills hard drives , they have a certain amount of read/writes before they die

[@sharktooh76]

@@limpa756 Btrfs destroys ssds not hard drives. Async trim must be enabled to reduce the amount of writes with btrfs during trim.

[@TVPInterpolation]

afaik it never has in this kind of sense. i can atleast say i run it on all devices i use (btrfs) with timeshift, and they still work after several years of use

[@ayikart]

EndeavorOS and Garuda is both arch anyway, so I will not change.

[@tarikulislam686]

I'm getting scared to use Garuda Linux. Only open source project that has 24/7 support center. Ask questions w8 5 min someone will solve your problem, but how? Either they are so much passionate about their project or something else. Love you Garuda team 😍😍😍😍😍

[@MichaelMantion]

Unused RAM is NOT good. For the most part having programs loaded into RAM isn't bad. What is bad is if it can't clear up ram for new programs. Id rather have a system with 2gb or ram usage at idle than .6gb. MORE is better. I hate it when people think less memory usage is better.

[@mlTS7626]

You just keep changing You won't find a best one

[@eBuzzCentral]

I change monthly to bring the viewers the most recent information on different distributions that are out there.

[@mlTS7626]

@@eBuzzCentral Sometimes you say this is best Next day you'll say It has lots of bugs, this is not good Plz test thoroughly and make a long term review video I guess you're changing daily driver in a week Daily driver should not be like this Anyway, I'm your regular viewer

[@eBuzzCentral]

No sir I'll have to correct you on that, the only distribution I've ever done that with was Nobara, and I informed everybody and switched to gecko if you don't believe me watch all 330 of my videos.

[@artedwards717]

I have been trying to load a brother MFC_ j1010dw on garuda. Can you help